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I am calling the end of recent bear market rally, and the start of the most violent move down on the memory of any living human being, with Dow/Nasdaq/S&P never seeing current levels for quite a few years to come, likely not in a lifetime of any living human being.

Of course natural forces are at work. They were also at work when Communism fell. I'm just wondering what the consequences of the coming crash are going to be. How will it affect the debates swirling around the halls of power? Will the thrones of the world tremble at the sound of the crash? Or will they continue to play the fiddle as civilization burns around them?

How? When you consider that most companies have shown a profit not by getting new customers, but by cutting costs? What happens when they can't cut anymore? Business activity is contracting, moving money from one place to another is not real profit. Good luck, but I hope you have a short selling plan in case things go south.

Just wondering if there's any hubs out there that just explain, step by step the basics of the stock market? All the ones I've seen seem to deal with just one part in detail or losses on the stock market.

Regarding the current long range downtrend of the stock market, I am one person who does not buy into Elliott Wave Theorists' apocalyptic views of the market. Their views and analysis of the markets may not make sense....

The stock market has risen about 15% in the last 3 months and about 80% in the last 8 months. Seriously?We are still losing close to 200,000 jobs a month and small businesses are hurting. The economic data...

I know the stock market is bad, but I'd like to start investing as I know there are a lot of great bargains out there. So if anyone can recommend any published books that they have read themselves, I would appreciate it.

The DOW is at an all time high of over 22,000. That is great news for people who are investing...The question is, what percent of the population is in the market and reaping the benefits?Not everyone buys individual...